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After Twitter adds a label to his misleading tweets, Trump says Republicans will “strongly regulate” social media platforms or “close them down” — - Attack comes after Twitter fact-checked, labeled Trump tweet — Tech companies have faced criticism from conservatives of bias
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| Elizabeth Dwoskin / Washington Post: |
In a first, Twitter adds a “Get the facts” label to two Trump tweets with false claims about mail-in voting, which links to a Twitter Moment refuting his claims — The action comes after years of criticism that social media companies have allowed the president to push misinformation unchecked
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| Jefferson Graham / USA Today: |
HBO Max launches without being on Roku and Amazon, the two most popular streaming platforms — The latest new streaming service HBO Max bowed with unlimited access to every episode of “Friends,” “The Big Bang Theory” and “Game of Thrones.” But if all you've got is a streaming player from Roku or Amazon, you won't be able to watch.
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| Ian Allison / CoinDesk: |
Coinbase is acquiring Tagomi, a prime brokerage platform specializing in digital asset trading, to bolster its institutional trading business — San Francisco-based cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is finally acquiring Tagomi, a prime brokerage platform specializing in digital asset trading.
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The Coinbase Blog, TechCrunch, Fortune, Cointelegraph, AVC, BitcoinExchangeGuide, Messari Crypto, The Block, CryptoGlobe, and Decrypt
Tweets: @udiwertheimer and @coinbasepro
| Mariella Moon / Engadget: |
YouTube Kids is now available on Apple TV and works on both the 4K and HD versions of the device — YouTube's dedicated app for kids is now out for download from the App Store on Apple TV, so long as it's available in your region. It works on both the 4K and the HD versions of the device … | Nitasha Tiku / Washington Post: |
A group of insiders filed a confidential whistleblower's complaint to the SEC claiming Facebook has not warned investors of illegal activity on its platform — The complaint, which was obtained by The Washington Post, includes dozens of pages of screenshots of opioids and other drugs for sale … | Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon is in advanced talks to buy self-driving car startup Zoox; the deal will value Zoox at less than the $3.2B valuation it achieved in 2018 — Deal expected to value Zoox at less than its last private valuation — Amazon. com Inc. is in advanced talks to buy Zoox Inc. in a move … | Nick Statt / The Verge: |
Amazon sent a script and video to US TV stations promoting its safety measures; at least 11 stations aired some form of it, and 10 didn't divulge the source — Numerous news stations ran segments featuring identical Amazon talking points — Amazon has been successfully feeding talking points …
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| Taylor Lorenz / New York Times: |
Behind the rise of TikTok “cults”, like Step Chickens, which revolve around a single creator and borrow tactics from “comment raid” groups on other platforms — Fandoms are forming around a new kind of influencer: the charismatic cult leader.
Tweets: @taylorlorenz, @tonytassell, @nytmedia, @realadamrose, @yoda, and @genepark
| Chaim Gartenberg / The Verge: |
Samsung unveils Samsung Money, a Samsung Pay-linked debit card program launching later this summer, in partnership with SoFi and Mastercard — Launching in partnership with SoFi and Mastercard — Samsung has announced further details for its upcoming debit card program …
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Tweets: @thekenyeung and @caseynewton
| Ashley Carman / The Verge: |
Instagram will start sharing revenue with creators through IGTV ads and badges on Live, splitting 55% of the revenue, starting with 200 partners next week — And purchasable Badges in Instagram Live — For the first time in its history, Instagram will start sharing revenue with creators through ads …
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Tweets: @sarahfrier, @sarahfrier, @wongmjane, @ashleyrcarman, and @jake_k
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google rolls out tools across Maps and Search to help businesses impacted by COVID-19, including letting restaurants point to preferred delivery partners — Google is rolling out a series of updates aimed at helping local businesses adapt to the COVID-19 pandemic while continuing to serve their customers across Google Maps and Search.
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VentureBeat, The Keyword, 9to5Google, Mashable, CNET, Search Engine Land, The Verge, and Search Engine Journal
| Nilay Patel / The Verge: |
Q&A with Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield on competing with Microsoft, navigating the current surge in demand, and sticking with Electron for Slack's desktop app — It's hard to remember what remote work was like before Slack. The company was founded in 2009, exploded in popularity in 2014 … | Richard Nieva / CNET: |
Sundar Pichai told employees Google plans to gradually reopen offices and is targeting July 6, at ~10% building capacity, increasing to ~30% by September — Google CEO Sundar Pichai told employees Tuesday that the search giant is targeting July 6 to reopen offices for workers who want to come back.| Juli Clover / MacRumors: |
Apple releases macOS 10.15.5 with new Battery Health Management feature for MacBooks with Thunderbolt 3, managing battery life by adjusting charging patterns — Apple today released macOS Catalina 10.15.5, the fifth update to the macOS Catalina operating system that was released in October 2019.
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The Verge, Laptop Mag, Engadget, Apple Support, TechRadar.com, BetaNews, International Business Times, and MacDailyNews. Tweets: @danmatte
| Bloomberg: |
Sources: TikTok parent company ByteDance generated $17B+ in revenue and $3B+ in net profit in 2019, more than double its $7.4B revenue from 2018 — TikTok parent-company ByteDance Ltd. generated more than $17 billion in revenue and more than $3 billion in net profit last year …
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CNBC. Tweets: @lianabaker, @gavinsbaker, @firstadopter, @nanduan, @mdudas, @jonrussell, @shuvi, @pingroma, and @katie_roof
| Gartner: |
Global shipments of PCs, tablets, and mobile phones are forecast to drop 13.6% overall in 2020, with smartphones dropping 13.7% YoY and PCs falling 10.5% — Work from Home Trend Saved PC Market from Collapse — Global shipments of devices (PCs, tablets and mobile phones) …
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| Morris Kiruga / Rest of World: |
A look at OKash, a popular microcredit app in Kenya that threatens users to notify everyone on their contact list when they fall behind on loan payments — Okash, a popular fintech app in Kenya and Nigeria, threatens users to notify everyone on their contact list when you fall behind on your loan payments.
Tweets: @ahmed, @lalehkhalili, @ftrain, @anupkaphle, @privacymatters, @mohamed, @claritytoast, and @restofworld
| Jonathan Shieber / TechCrunch: |
Israel-based D-ID, which is working on tech to make faces unrecognizable to face recognition software, raises $13.5M led by AXA Ventures — If only Facebook had been using the kind of technology that TechCrunch Startup Battlefield alumnus D-ID was pitching, it could have avoided exposing …
Tweets: @dtunkelang
| Erik Larson / Bloomberg: |
A federal judge dismisses a lawsuit from right-wing nonprofit Freedom Watch and Laura Loomer alleging anti-conservative bias at Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube — A federal appeals court rejected claims that social media giants including Alphabet Inc.'s Google, Facebook Inc. and Twitter Inc. conspired …
Tweets: @josh_wingrove and @micahgrimes
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